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Organize Your Words

When you have lots of words, it's a good idea to organize them. Say you are taking a Spanish class. You can sort your words into a group for each lesson in your class. Or maybe you are teaching yourself Japanese from a textbook, then you could make a group of words for each chapter in the book. Of course there are also lots of ways that you can make groups that are unique to how you learn. Maybe you want of group of all the words that you always forget, or a group of the very newest words you've learned. All of these can be done using Groups.

To organize your words into groups, you first need to show the Groups Table by choosing View > Show Groups. You will start out with several groups already created for you, including the special group called "All Words". This group automatically holds all the words in your document (it also can't be deleted). You can create a new group by clicking the add group button (Add Group Button) at the bottom left of the window. You can name your new group whatever you want ("Lesson 2", "Chapter 3", "Words I Like", etc). Then click on the "All Words" group and drag the words you want into your newly created group. If you want to remove words from the group, first click on that group, select the words, then click on the remove word button (Remove Word Button).

The group you just created is the most basic kind, you just add and remove words manually. You can also create a Smart Group that will automatically add and remove words based on conditions you give it. To create a Smart Group, hold the option key and press the add group button (Add Group Button). You will see a window where you can edit the new Smart Group. First give it whatever name you want, then you can edit its conditions. You can create more conditions by clicking the plus button, and remove them by clicking minus. Once you have set the conditions to what you want, just click Create and you will see your new group. If you want to edit the conditions of the name of the group later, just double click the group. For some ideas for smart groups, you can see the ones that are already created for you when you make a new document.